Leo Tolstoy

Yes, I suppose so," answered Anna, as though wondering at the boldness of his question; but the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire as she said it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#happiness #inspirational #life #inspirational

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#happiness #freedom

I don't think anything," she said, "but I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.... ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#dolly #love

Scese, evitando di guardarla a lungo, come si fa col sole; ma vedeva lei, come si vede il sole, anche senza guardare. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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oh God! what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men's esteem? ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#men

Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life

They haven’t an idea what happiness is; they don’t know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness—no life at all ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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